Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues blog

Superheroes are already fantasy, but why stop there?

As a kid, I was, no surprise, the biggest Super Friends fan going. One of the show's hallmarks (like the Justice League comics that inspired it) was the way in which the larger assembly of heroes would divide into smaller groups to tackle simultaneous crises. I loved seeing who went with who each time, and made up my own mental wish-list sub-groupings. 

Today, I still love this about the medium—and its inventive derivations.


My first online stop of the day is Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues, a daily dose of fictional meetings of fictional characters (as opposed to the "real" meetings of fictional characters that play out in comics, movies, and TV shows).

A labor of love by Ross Pearsall, it combines characters who (usually) haven't co-starred in an actual published story. Ross doesn't limit himself to superheroes; his covers also tap popular figures from science fiction, action-adventure, comic strips, rock music, and more.

Many of the pairings are inspired (Dr. Mid-Nite and Moon Knight) and sometimes batsplat crazy (Vibe joins the Monkees). The digital mojo on display is seamless, plus Ross has a gift for clever wordplay; the titles of his fake stories are spot-on.

Ross may rue the day I discovered his work because I regularly send him unsolicited suggestions. A guy who teamed up Huntress and Darkman and Godzilla and Boba Fett and Peanuts and Tiny Titans is obviously is not lacking for inspiration.

Still, he humors me, and sometimes even runs with one of my suggestions. (Sometimes it turns out that he beat me to it—either a team-up that was already up but I missed or one already in the works. Geek minds think alike.)

I
deas I proposed:

(though the main co-star is the other Thing)

(both space captains)

 Rocketeer and Bulleteer

Oracle and Max Headroom 
(both members of the Decoders)


(namely Sword of the Atom) 
 

(both archaeologists)

(hers and his hyphenates)





(see also #1788)



 
(kindred spirit to my suggestion of
Fantastic Four and Inferior Five vs. Secret Six...
but then see two covers down)

(on one-year anniversary of Bill getting official credit)


(I proposed Swamp Thing and Yoda on Dagobah) 




(see also #1464)

(I proposed Tarzan and B'wana Beast because of a similar aesthetic
underpants-only costumes)






(a common request;
see also #2343 below)


(both long-overdue headliners of recent [this posted in April 2018] 
highly successful films about royal superheroes who are not white men)

(lightning and thunder)




(I proposed the Justice League of Aliens:
Superman, Spock, 
Yoda, ET, 
Mork, ALF, Marvin the Martian)

(see also #2184 above)

(both boldly going where no one
has gone before)




(I first proposed Lois Lane and Little Lulu,
then this)



















(I've proposed multiple pairs within this group,
mostly with Frozone or Elsa)

(both members of the Space-Time Five)



(I proposed Mr. Bones/Ghost Rider vs. Atomic Skull/Skeletor)




Batman and Robin and the Fonz (jumping the King Shark)
(I suggested Aquaman and the Fonz
both Arthursjumping the King Shark)






(I proposed only Woody and Groot)


(Captain America, Air Wave, Alvin, Atom Ant, 
Amazing Man, Captain Avenger, Atomic Mouse; 
I proposed calling them the "All-New A-Team" 
and included a wild cardHester Prynne)



(I proposed Amazing Spider-Man and Amazing Man...and 'Mazing Man)




(I proposed Aquaman/Yellow Submarine)


(I have proposed Clark Kent with 
Peter Parker, Dick Tracy, Harry Potter, Hulk; 
though this is not one of those pairings, 
I am including here because it is the 
first time the Clark logo has appeared on the blog)




All work copyright its respective original creators. All team-up alchemy credit to Ross. Keep it going, Ross!

3 comments:

dadoctah said...

Still no pairing of Doctor Strange with Adam Strange?

Marc Tyler Nobleman said...

At least once: http://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/2013/04/adam-strange-and-doctor-strange.html

Sasha Nevermore said...

I just want to say thank you for making all of those wonderful suggestions because I am as thrilled and enamored with Ross's work as you are and I hope he doesn't stop anytime soon.